Are you seeking admission into the Umaru Musa Yar’adua University? (UMYU) or searching for the courses offered as well as their admission requirements? You are definitely on the right page, as we have compiled the list of courses and admission requirements.
Umaru Musa Yar’Adua University (UMYU), formerly Katsina State University, was established by the Katsina State Government in 2006, to “serve as a nucleus for socio-economic, technological and political development of the State by producing highly skilled human resource through conventional face-to-face and distance learning modes.”[3] Umaru Musa Yar’adua, then the executive governor of Katsina State and later the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, began the work of creating the university before his death in 2010.
The law establishing the Katsina State University was passed by the Katsina State House of Assembly on 5 September 2006, and the University commenced academic activities in January 2007 with three faculties (Education, Humanities, and Natural and Applied Sciences), and 16 undergraduate programmes. The State House of Assembly passed a law changing the name of the university to honor Umaru Musa Yar’adua on 8 April 2009.
The first 25 years of the university’s existence have been divided into four phases—three phases of 5 years each, followed by a 10-year phase. In each phase, the university will add faculties, departments, and academic programmes, until it has a total of 13 faculties, 76 departments and 236 academic programmes (undergraduate and postgraduate).
The Visitor of the University is the serving governor of the state (currently Aminu Bello Masari); the Chancellor is Nigeria’s one-time Minister of Economic Development, Dr. Umaru Mutallab; and the current Vice Chancellor (as of 2021) is Professor Sanusi Mamman.
List of Available Courses Offered by UMYU
Umar Musa Yar’Adua University (UMYU) invites applications from suitably qualified candidates for admission into the under – listed courses.
- ACCOUNTING
- ARABIC STUDIES
- BIOCHEMISTRY
- BIOLOGY
- BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
- CHEMISTRY
- COMPUTER SCIENCE
- ECONOMICS
- EDUCATION AND ARABIC
- EDUCATION AND BIOLOGY
- EDUCATION AND CHEMISTRY
- EDUCATION AND ECONOMICS
- EDUCATION AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE
- EDUCATION AND FRENCH
- EDUCATION AND GEOGRAPHY
- EDUCATION AND HAUSA
- EDUCATION AND HISTORY
- EDUCATION AND ISLAMIC STUDIES
- EDUCATION AND MATHEMATICS
- EDUCATION AND PHYSICS
- ENGLISH LANGUAGE
- FRENCH
- GEOGRAPHY
- HAUSA
- HISTORY
- INDUSTRIAL CHEMISTRY
- ISLAMIC STUDIES
- LAW
- LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
- MATHEMATICS
- MICROBIOLOGY
- PHYSICS
- POLITICAL SCIENCE
- PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
- SOCIOLOGY
- STATISTICS
- TEACHER EDUCATION SCIENCE
UMYU Admission Requirements
The following are the general entry requirements approved for admission into the institution.
- Candidates who chose Umar Musa Yar’Adua University as their preferred choice of institution during the Post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and Direct Entry (DE) Registration.
- UTME Candidate must have a minimum JAMB and/or the institutional cut-off marks or higher for the programmes applied.
- Candidates are also required to obtain the required O’level credits for their programmes as specified in JAMB Brochure.
- Candidate must be at least 16 (Sixteen) of age.
- Interested Candidates who did not choose Umar Musa Yar’Adua University during the UTME/DE Registration but wish to study in the University, should change to the UMYU via JAMB website.
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